Comment by jack_tripper

Comment by jack_tripper a day ago

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>EU was supposed to be an economic union, but it morphed into a politicaly cancerous union.

The EU started with noble goals, but given enough time, the purpose of any large bureaucracy shifts to growing even larger and only existing to justify its own existence, rather than serving its original intended purpose.

Remember the "What would you say...you do here?" Bobs from Office Space where workers in useless jobs couldn't explain why their job is needed but they insisted they were needed.

You see this in the corporate world on a daily basis, but government bureaucracies are no different.

throwawayqqq11 a day ago

Same can be said about private corporations. We humans still havent figured out how to structure institutions without constructive destruction in the end. Democracies and free markets both have this correctiv destruction built in and both mechanism are under attack.

Lets hope we still get chances to vote out autocrats peacefully and smash oligopols as the sovereign.

  • jack_tripper 21 hours ago

    >Same can be said about private corporations.

    Didn't I say the same thing?

    >We humans still havent figured out how to structure institutions without constructive destruction in the end.

    And we never will. There's nothing to figure out here, since human greed is constant everywhere. No matter what perfect system you think you create, over time, power hungry greedy sociopaths climb to the top, and steer it to favor them and their cronies until it collapses.

    • throwawayqqq11 20 hours ago

      There is something to find out. In small scale tribes, hierarchies were presumably much more flat societies more egalitarian.

      https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4143610/

      I guess it's still an unsolved organisational problem around communication and transparency.

      • jack_tripper 19 hours ago

        Countries are not tribes anymore. They're economic zones made for capital generation and accumulation.